12 MAY 1883, page 15

Books.

ITALIAN BYWAYS.* Mn. SYMONDS'S candle is set upon a candlestick, and his light shines before men, BO that it invites a closer criticism than would the brilliance of less......

Art.

MANY visitors to this Gallery will pause before Mr. Hale's' "Venus and Psyche," and wonder at the artist's temerity in painting in so frankly unconventional a manner a subject......